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Friday, December 21, 2012

NATURE AND TRASH

I'm stuck to thinking about Architecture almost very minute of everyday the past few days.  I've been forming things inside my head on almost everything around. Function follows form, right? Let's try that.. wonder how it would look to form structures that look like a chipped, dirty cup, leaning stacked soup bowls, distorted forks, broken plates, bent metals, screws and nails, squeezed lemons, dusty books , crawling vines,  stored beer bottles and oddly, unmade bed. Unfolded blankets, soaps,  shaped whiskey bottles, brown, dried leaves,. Or thrown broken ceramic tiles, discarded boxes, empty plastic bottles and containers stones, cigarette butts and ashes.

Anything that's left standing nearby, on the garbage, near the doorway, the kitchen or the pavement.  It happens when I'm in bed , inside the toilet, and anywhere.  What else?/ Is it good to form buildings that look like rusting cans, leaves, flying cellophanes , spinning electric fan propellers, dead ants, stinking rats, ropes, sagging clotheslines, rolling bolts, dry and hard used paint brushes, pesky insects, hard dried spilled latex paint, egg trays, crumpled papers, fish head bones,  cut up tree branches.

Its like living on a not to scale environment..You'd never have to mold 'em. They're what they are.  You'll just have to pick them up.  Put it on your empty drafting table, take pictures of it and hope to see a different useful view or perspective. See the front, rear, right and left side elevations. top , bottom, x, y, and z coordinates...whatever dimensions...Then and think of the insides later on.

Next thing you know, you can just point it out to yourself or to the draftsman, "That's how I want my building should look like!"  ...and he could reply "Oh, a white spiral dung! Cool!.."  Put windows, doors, rooms and all...we'd call it The White Spiral"..what's the big deal?, it's just a non-functional form. at least for now.



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